Urban Farming is Booming, But What Does it Really Yield?
City-based agriculture produces 15 to 20 percent of food globally. In the U.S., its benefits go far beyond nutrition.
Elizabeth Royte
Spain’s CIC Tries to Build a New Economy from the Ground Up
The Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC, pronounced “seek”) is surely one of the more audacious commons-based innovations to have emerged in the past five years.
Climate Change Mitigation’s Best-Kept Secret
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas — but there’s a lot we can do about it.
The End of Sustainability
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine — and ultimately move past — the concept of sustainability.
The emerging power of microgrids
Prepare for the arrival of the renewable energy microgrid.
Getting beyond just wheat, corn, and rice
What was the last grain you ate? Chances are very good it was wheat, corn or rice…
Time to take ownership of the Anthropocene
Maybe you, too, know that feeling of despair that comes when learning of some catastrophic impact of climate change…
From grid waste to good taste
The U.S. power grid is a vital part of the nation’s infrastructure. It’s also a wasteful one. Now, a new start-up is looking to solve both of these inefficiencies at once by reducing utilities’ excess power production while turning dormant lands into productive greenhouses.
A Song of Our Warming Planet – Understanding climate change through music
University of Minnesota undergrad Daniel Crawford illustrates climate change with his cello.
Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community
Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it.
Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders
This report details 32 specific policy steps that local leaders can take to benefit from the growing sharing economy and support innovations such as carsharing, ridesharing, cohousing, cooperatives, and urban agriculture.
A New Society From the Bottom Up
So broadly speaking, even amongst radicals, most people are open to thinking about new directions, but they don’t have a fully coherently defined vision of where they’re going and how to go forward.
